CMI KCM SHKVICKS.

G. THOMAS, No. 108 Market St., PHILADELPHIA, Fine Family Meries.

QODFRKY .S; GODI'RHY

RALPH L. GOFF, CIVIL ENGINEER. ' SURVEY0W CONVEYANCER. NINTH AND CENTRAL AVENUE, OCEAN CITY. N. J.

idrud* in 8L Prl^r^hnrc and from uni! wbora llu. rank, of the dlaafl. ria» principally rccrnfl.-d. for the lot the Ru..niu •indeDt i* a 1 indeed, and it ia no wonder that b« > rockloM, dircontentcd indlvidnnl J" too ready to beromr the dnpe or accomplice of Umar win > jireacb ern ea acaintf {iroperty and thiaie who * It Fur be ia nut like the under i graduate of Oxfiad or Camhridire. jiaw •n a more or Ira. liberal at m liia father or hi. guardian The Knaainn .indent keep, biiueclf and pays hi. own fee. in most caaoa. He tm li-nain. during the hour, which ia income thna earned be eaine jn.t urngh to par hi. nHIT,rally f,« and .tarve handHimrly on what i« left 6rer The little .Indent who viutod Andre canard pxir liernfaky an 1m-

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r only .a

of Andre ,

LOW FErXCES. R. R. SOOY &. SON Restaurant and

Lunch Rooms

: 24. 26 ud 26 SOUTH TWELFTH'STREET

PHILADELPHIA. IRA.

ISRAEL G. ADAMS & CO. Real Estate ■ Insnrance -A. G-HHsTTS, Rooms Z, 41S, Rai EsUtf t lit Bulldlni!, ATLANTIC CITY. N. J. ( ommlndouera of Dewia for Penn-'

eylvania.

Money to loan on Kira I Murtgage. Late for rale at South Atlantic CTty

Moot) lo leu on Fint Mortfigi.

aeveral)

Whom he had hitherto failed to track to hia home, wherever that might he. Borof.ky now knew the addree. of all tb«.r.'l of the frienda of onr highly re-aja.-ul.le gn.al He a 1*0 knew all the bounce hannled by Andre bimarlf. which wen- duuhtlnai the ho rum of there aame wurtblea hut the .Indent hud lea n ton clever for Hmofeky and would never allin long enough in

few minnt-a ••He. like a will. aky mmplained. *•' got him aafe in yoni he', gone -Whither I

Heaven know.: 1

CHUKCH SOCIETIES.

HOTNIJt Ann « OTf A«i»J>. HOTEL ATGLEN

Sill ot Rttu

HEADQUARTERS FOR

Heal Estate anil Insurance. ^

CONVCVANCINC. ETC.. AT

CHARLES P. LAKE’S

"Bad roOKirnce." aaid Percy, and *e no donht be hit the right nail on

le bead.

One afternoon In November Rornbky

help, both of yon." h

aaid "That confounded young .laden with Andre. When be go** away

THE EMMETT

^|\l. IIRIDIIKWITER \\\\ l»., r 0 t

• goe. Will Though I did

artdN

yon br'lp. t;

i of you

GARWOOD HOUSE, OCEAN CITY. Now Jeraey. oliSfiluJ 1 , ‘ho««5?'»tii4i” |J,U— '

D. GAL1-AGHER, DKALKKIN FINE ••• FUBNITUBE, 43 South Second Street,

HOUSE M0VIN6 AND RAISING <a<-iirrnl 4 on I rm l or* 1>. 8. 8 A.>I 1*80IN', Stoves, Heaters,Ranges, PUMPS, SINKS, &C., ■lOH-lO Anbury .Avon tie. OtJEAN CITY. N.

W. L. BERRY, Manufacturing Jeweler, NO. ai SOLfTH SECOND ST.. ■■Iitlndelpt<ia. •••.

PETER MURDOCH, COAL, and WOOD, Ocean City, N. J.

OPEN ITIK THE SEASON OF '<HI. BELLEVUE HOT BATHS, SAMUEL^PHURCH. BOARDWALK. BETWEER 7IN AID Sll. STREETS New Suita for Surf BathlnB. J. T. BRYAN, ,,M No. 1007 RMlfe Ave. fbllABelplila. srcaaffitastji

Real Estate and Insurance Agents,

tfil A8BLTKY AVUKUE.

lor me. I did not care whetl lo be followed or not pr wh thought at.mt it I Intended to I him to the end. 1 therefore made tempt to conceal my w> nt •traight on. I could aee that the iwor fellow waa growing verv an lion. He did not like it Ho ran into the Ad miralty equate and dodg'd round the 1 into the Oalernaya. where there Were more people and a betb't chance of giving me the ■dip. but when he turnad to aee I waa •till behind him. • Cp the after him and almoat at bia heel*, for 1 waa not going to be ahaken off in the crowd, and ao we reached the top. at the Nicholas palace, close to the great done bridge of the name name, and ' over tbit bridge ha made aa though he would go But euddenly another idea atruck him. He turned a»ide from the bridge and. running quickly down the atepa ; that lead to the water, climbed the , "danger" ohatruction and got nj*® the ice with the evident intention of *h«x ing me of! by attempting the dangrruna and forlddden enterpriae of cruasing the Neva bef'ge the Ice bad been pronounced

aafe

I cmfeaa I did not like it It was too cold and too dark for a hath. There Waa no particular reason for ahadowing . this nnfurtunate little wretch all night, nntil in deaperation he ahonlddart into the M]nalid hole be called hia home Whal did hia addreaa matter to tuT 1 : felt that I waa doing a foolUh thing

hi. end of the bole,

which wa. about eight feet lung by foul or five wide There I a*cnred thy heal foothidd I could get. and then, bending, •cited my man by the collar of hit •bin digging my finger, well down nndir fab < bin When 1 Mt I bad bim tight. I hade him try to atrnggle < "I can't, iean't I" he gurgled I pqw 1 wa, half atraugling him "My leg. are right away uudn

get them hack 1 be

t I felt

it 1 n

■t follow

in anything by

it. hut because the Englihh blind in me wna of the real old ohatln.te. bulldog ' vintage. 1 auppnoe. and I moat «ttck to I a thing ones nudertakra nntil I bad carried it throngh. So I followed with acarcely an in- ' etant'e hesitation. . and—well, acme- i time, the thing, which appear

power Save

ever yon are' I never did you harm "I am trying to aave yon. " I aaid. I pulled at bim It must have hern choky prnceaa for the poor fellow B> "lx-t go with your banda and I'll pull yen along the edge op atream.V 1 aaid. "Uou't loae yonr bead Itwi “ all right I won't let you got" "No. no! _I can't. I da ten 1 1 gaeped. “If *1 l.ae my bold on tb. the current will ouck me away i instant Hold on tight till aoiue

fuolUb t

e the

• caeca le

je to me ex Cl jitiug a* etrengtbour nqniring each etidcure. I con ited Li help Bomf.ky to ehadow hi. It o' the wisp, and w. did Percy •U.*d.'' aaid Borof.ky "Now. aee re. I am going to t.ke up my ,Uud the coiner of the palai-e bridge I ill tie in diaguiaa. One of yon can go vard the Liteynaya lo the righi «g the quay, and-avatch in .feline lewgT or pari-h In ca«« he goea that y The other ebould Wait until be ir. the fellow departing Keep this

JOSEPH SUTTON

•“'$'»• ! r/r.r,;™;s zxs

OCEAN CITY. A J : the inatant you aiprar. Don't low a

—) minute, hut follow him. "

Coneyancing. Real Estate I £;‘", Insurance. Hortgages I'jSSSrirST.l'S.t: — and Collections t '" ! * ‘ tr " ,,K ob i^ ,i ' ,n 'Uivering in a

anti uuiiwuiiuiio catching eight of

the quarry.

So away went Bcrofaky to the Dvorteovni Moat, or palace bridge, and ont •allied Percy to atand and abiver in hie porch op Liteynaya way. I oat and read, expectant prepared to dart forth after my quarry, like a tiger that lie, and wait, for the native povttnan jnat about due (aa he know.) to trot through the jangle with the afternoon poat. like a ayider cn the lookout for the tly which ia audible, bnxxing dove at hand. Lot

H. A. W. SMITH & BRO., 848 flsbury Avenue,

OCEAN CITY. N. J.

PLUMBING,

3£T

JOSEPH M. CORSON

Real . Estate Agent

not yet qoite made up it* mind lo j come and be eaten, and like a great many other thing* too numerous to

'.|..lfy

I At laat I heard Andre a door open and shut There were light atep* running ' quickly down the marble atalra into the j hull, the great d.,ir waa* open, and— laud then I wa. op and after him. I "He'a cone to the left whi.I.-Ti d

. the fa

PALERMO. 'rotm^UTlwna ol'uieeltv! 4 ”? *l«i have anme (arm. tor aale.m Uie matuUna: ->tw C. A. CAHPBELL & CO. Real Estate Office

ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.

WeU. il

l.irtiT. "running t running like a

1 flatter'd myaa-lf I could prole, ably go one Iwttrr than any Kneuan atudenL will o' the wlap or otherwiee. that ever "*iiriut*'d a hundred!" Away I ac-odded mnni jg on my toee. nniaelrwly -1 had put on a pair of tennia ihiae on pnr|«aa-. tor 1 wi»lied to do my beet f'g poor Borufaky thl. time. It wa. nrariv dark and a cold evening, very ninereot tram an tngiian Novem bar evening There had 'wen a hard froat for a week, and the Neva waa cwv-

wiaeat 1 followed—riaking my life— which wa. ao nmqieakably valuable to , my dear. mother, without once reflect- ! ing upon that domeatic circnmatance— and followed in the wlacom of otter ! foolirhnraa, and— Away K-udded my little will o’ Ilia wiep. taking a diagonal line in the dl- ! recticn of the mining corpe. which i. a | good half mile or more from the bridge on the other oidu. and away acudded I . after him. I could bear him run and pant in ; front of me. though It wae ao dark out here in midriver that I could not aee

bim

We bad run. I ebould think, anme I SOo or 800 yard, over the rougheet I elide ice that twisted one', ankle* .ml "barked" one', nbm, at every other . step when euddenly there waa a acTeam, I followed Instantly by a eplaab and an t agonised cry for help. CHA1TEK XVIII. likacuK or nt* arvnutT. My heart aauk. 1 kni-mln an inatant : that 1 we. in for an adventure, a wet j and cold one probably, and perbapa a

prone one.

t feel heroic I don't think I that way. and I boneatly j avow that if 1 had thought thi. wretched .Indent fellow would be lure -to get hiuuelf ont of the water without aaslitance from me 1 should gladly hare turnad at thi* emergency and gone quietly borne. But unfortunately, or fortunately, my conecienr* would not hear of it for a

moment.

“The little rascal will go under the ice in a minute," it aaid. "enlea. yon go and pick him ont of danger." 1 knew my conacier.ee wae perfectly correct Ofic'e conscience le about the only thing in thi. world that la infallible Ginaciaiicr ia always right and almoat always dimgreeabl* and unpleaaIf wa If.ten to It— aa we inmrt In order to pr ever re that peace of mind without which Ilf* i, not worth living—if we listen to it* wbiaperingc we are obliged, at timm. to do very revolting things and to leave nndene many pleasant On thisneraaion I felt bonnd to leave nntaated the pleasure of sneaking home, dry and aafe. and to undertake the revolting duty of riaking ray life In order to save this little wretch, now yelling for help, from the watery grave that yawn'd for him. It wa* very unpleasant. and I hatej doing it. therefore, aarcaalic reader, do not imagine that in dracribing my action, as I must now do, 1 d'etre to paaa a. in the aligbteat

"No one wiH-cime.'' I said. "If you keep yonr bead and let me pull yon .along quietly, you may lie iuivM Let go with your hands. I tell you." “I won'tl" h- screamed. "If* my only chance. Oh. the old of It! Oet a fued foothold and pull " "Let go. .*ua fool I" I aaid angrily.. "I can't mow yon this way. and the

atraiu of bolding you will weary tm before li ng. Let go with your bands!* ~ " fellow, - - - -

• claw

! He

id farther round towi

neck Then I pulled at him. trying !.*>•* him to let go and float. »> that light tow him Mdewaya to the edge.

loose hia frenxied grip.

14o yflBI

ed that I would rather have gone home What I did 1 waa obliged to do. whether 1 liked it or no. and it waa certainly The little student had. 1 fount, run straight into a bole in the lee There were plenty of such bole*, for the befeum of the river had not frnten over, be it remembered The lee bad floated down

bowev Then I forced the garni I purposely ■tapped Upon on* of hi. hands, and with a yell and a mrae he let go (Joirklv I polled him twckwud and -*ong The plan ancmdnl admirably. 1 got bim sideway. ag: m-t Hie side of the ice. higher np stream, and bitched hia face and Ml shoulder upon the edge But the frightened fool spoiled my game by losing hi, bead and atrng gliug to lay b< Id of something for him

■elf.

Ptifortunatrly the thing b(a hands Aral met and clutched waa my left leg. He uricl it am! tugged. Heaven know, what be hoped to gain'by the rnlcidal •What he m-tnally did waa to cause me to dip and liae- my balance I fell close to the edge of Ihr icr. and tin fellow ii>: tantly clawed at me and pulled me into tbe.water. By the m.Tcy of Providence I kicked myself free > f him as I slipped into my Icy bath or he would have pulled me down beneath the surface, and we .should have dl-d . together fighting madly for a momei.t or two beneath lb*

beronda; To float dc

down stream lo the lower rad of the bole. A, I touched water 1 •truck ont upward and. seixlng through edge of the ice. swung my chew! well out of the water and By thus a

■ that 1

friend* In A inert' In I "arts liy regiat.-rltig his nninc of the m-wnimper ..me.-*. The are eul>lrd over every day aid appear on the following morning In the New

York editions.

Thla custom struck two smart bi n'-as men a* lielng open to large pa I'HIUcs. One of them goes to Pi every spring upon bualneaa, and. In der that the one who remains In New York should he kept i»mied as to what tils partner U doing, a large amount of cabling 1* neovwnry In order to 'v-nnomlxe In It Is aaid that the two | rang'sl a dpber. made up of family and CbristUneuatiimc Every day that the partner In Part* transact'd nome business he walked Into the newspaper otBec and n gUt'T'd then' under some name and a-Mreas that eoorryrd to bt* colh-ague In New York an exact Idea of the progress he was making. The name. Initial and place of residence registered represented soma Item of informatlou which the latrtner In New York learned next day upon reading the newspaper's list of arrlvala la Paris.—Strav Storte*

uow a dnt

said a local of friends, "who has Urroraicd on* ot the wall, of hi. Lai-ticlui a pan menu with a trophy rompo*<s! entirely of hotel keys. It ts the queerest thing I over saw In my life. The keys are arranged In n hug* circle, and each of them I* attached to a metal tag. anme roiiud. Borne square, some trUugtllar In fact, they are of every Imagltuhlr ■Ix* and almp*. and of all kind, of material, from cast Iron to aluminium. ‘‘Id the middle of the decoration I. a 'luster of cuormoua specimen!, most of tlu-m !■.nil-red and nuty. and looking aa If they might have lock'd the gates of aU'-icnt fortreoaca. They came from village tavern* where modern Improvement* are unknown. All the kegs In the eollectlon-and 1 am sure there are at lea.t 300—have been stolen from 'tin.-rent boteD through'Their present owner, or rather their present possesaor. told roc Hint be began getting them together several years ago. and wherever he chanced to stop be always made a point of car rylug away hia room key."—New Or-h-ous Time* DcmocraL

“People over 60 would do well to give up milk and eggs aa a diet" aaid Dr. Henry M. I'carborne. Them are the alrnrtnre forming fiasla of animals, which mature In a abort time, and when taken In quantities by human la-lnga whose at met urea have already formed they tend only to tin hardening and aging of the tissues." Dr. Itearboruo said that be hail aeon people who were beginning to And stair Climbing diflieull and who were losing tlielr elasticity much Ix-iM-fited by eliminating these articles from their diet "Tbere has lieen k great Increase In the dnratton of life below the oge of 60, statistics prove." bo said, “bat beyond that period there has been no opinion, the per it 6u should have aa good a chance to preserve life gs the young child just beginning Its struggle with tatcnce.—New York Tltnea. Tbo ancient Clan Macirod need to exercise a strange teat to prove the man hood of their chieftain* At Dnnvegan castle, on the island of Hkye. there la preaerved the large born known "Rory More'* Horn." Thla capacious vessel holds rather more than a bottle liquor. According to the old custom, every laird of Mached waa obliged on hia coining of ago to fill this horn with claret and without one* laying it down to drain it to the dregs This was Ukcn aa a proof of hi. mandeemed a worthy ot lh- taut

The coat of ruhtMT Urea Justifies a large outlny for the pnrpoae of diarov- . wing which la the moat durable pattern and design. Tires coot from *Zi to AVI each, ami some of the special

rxp'-rinicnt* with the various tl l»-liig watched with much attrutton by tbs people who are Interested lo the horseless frocks, because the heavy vehicles' will Tequlre tires of great et.-rnglh. The solid rubber lire baa vehicle* and I. having Its share of attention In the testa which are now bolag made.—New York Tribune.

On one of the recent hot nights a young woman of Manayunk was suffering from a violent headache, which made sleeping lmpoasll4e. aaya the Philadelphia Record. To avoid the heat, and thinking the fresh air might case her bead, she sat ont on the front doorstep, using a bottle of ammonia frvquonUy as smelling salts. A wily poUrarnan of German extraction espied the woman at an unseemly hour of the morning and Imagined that she was drinking heavily from a bottle or else intending to commit suicide. After notching her awhile be emerged from hta hiding place, walked np to the supposed suicide and asked her why she slept on the steps- She rrptled she was not sleeping and answered truthfully as to what she waa doing with the bottle. Hull the wily Mnecoat wa. not satisfied and Instate' liittle. He took the ammonia am flown. He headache i

A correspondent of the Chicago Record says: There was a mild sensation the other day when the llule town of Uauatatch. district of BaaUtt. Baden. published Its annual financial statement for the year 18U&. The town', riiixcns have to pay no municipal taxes. Gauabacb ts not only ont of debt hut la In a position to pay a bonus of f 13.86 to every male citlaeo and to every widow In town. Beside* this, every one gets hia fuel free from the vast forests belonging to the town. 1 hare investigated the matter and found that the town haa been In this splendid financial condition for the last SO or ail years, haa asked no mantel pal taxes, haa paid the annual per capita bonus and ha* given each eMaen his frluter". supply of furL Tbere are a good many people In Germany who would like to be cittseos of Gauabacb.

It 1. .aid Bryan christenod the state qnlveralty at Boulder The College of the Clouds." We object. The name la Injustice. It la more than that It •s the effete east the Impreealoo it our beautiful Colorado, purest gem In the diadem of stateei land of lilnc, fruits and flowers, that this. • chooen spoL the place where be raised the loftiest of nature', tempire, piercing the blue to heaven'* footstool—that thla 1. the place of clouds. Thi. cannot, shall not must not be. Mr. Bryan. You may call It the college of sunshine, tbc university of tbo Italian sky. tbs school of lb« ana. seminary of the sun kisacd sierra, but you ~M,mll not pros, down upon our brow this crown of fog; you shall not crucify Colorado on thla cross of clouds.—Victor (Colo.) Prrea.

"Rhe's now." he said bitterly. * prettiest little old fashioned at yon ever saw when Mi* •troll tn the woods and a fellow to tie the h under her cl dm to do th •ek a little, and then, when she la nost Invlttnfl"— “WeUr

penplre the porerenao of a tall spring wa* regarded a. a special gift of 'the foda The Chaoniana In Epirtu bad pn* which flowed into a stream wl - ••